Currently including 26 interviews (available as audio files and transcriptions), mostly conducted in the late 1970s, that document the many aspects of life in Louisville, particularly as experienced by African Americans, this digital collection...

Jean Thomas wearing her "Narrator" costume (a long black dress with white collar and sleeves), is joined by various musicians, including fiddler J.P. Fraley and his wife Annadeene (who also works as Thomas' assistant) onstage at the thirty-eighth...

Various musicians, including children playing hammered dulcimer; men playing guitar and harmonica; a young woman playing guitar; and a string band featuring J.P. Fraley on fiddle join Jean Thomas, wearing a long black dress with white collar and...

Jean Thomas, wearing a long black dress with white collar and sleeves, is joined by various musicians, including some in Elizabethan costume, children doing play-party games, and an audience at the thirty-eighth annual American Folk Song Festival,...

Various musicians, including some in Elizabethan costume; a hammered dulcimer player; a guitar player; a group of children; and an audience at the thirty-eighth annual American Folk Song Festival, now held at Carter Caves State Park in Olive Hill,...

A group of musicians pose in uniform with their instruments. The corps includes wind instruments and drums. The largest drum reads "Banner Council Band, Louisville, KY." The band is posed in front of the group's meeting place at 318 E. Broadway.

A group of men and boys, including Bunyon Day (far left, standing, with guitar), poses with instruments in a cornfield. A man in a suit, second from left, plays fiddle, beside an old man (Uncle Tom West) wearing a hat and playing mountain dulcimer....

A group of men and boys, including Bunyon Day (far left, standing, with guitar), poses with instruments in a cornfield. A man in a suit, second from left, plays fiddle, beside an old man (Uncle Tom West) wearing a hat and playing mountain dulcimer....

A group of men and boys, including Bunyon Day (far left, standing, with guitar), poses with instruments in a cornfield. A man in a suit, second from left, plays fiddle, beside an old man (Uncle Tom West) wearing a hat and playing mountain dulcimer....

A band consisting of eight musicians on an arch-shaped stage in front of a decorative background. The musicians are all African-American men. Six of them play horns, one is on the drums, one plays the piano, and one is on a bass. The three horn...

A group of musicians stand underneath a sign that reads "Howell's 'Theatre of the Air' Proudly Presents Clayton McMichen and his Georgia Wildcats in Person." The band is standing in front of a microphone with "NBC" on the microphone stand. The...

Five men, including Chick Thomas on guitar, Ed Morrison on fiddle, and unidentified musicians on harmonica, banjo, and guitar, perform outside Jean Thomas' brick "Wee House in the Wood" in Ashland, Kentucky. Title supplied by cataloger.

Frank Sinatra onstage accompanied by Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra at the Jefferson County Armory. Dorsey has his back to the audience and stands in front of the other musicians while Sinatra faces the audience while gripping the stand of a microphone....

Six African American musicians perform in an open pavilion. The drum reads "Jones Orchestra." Other instruments include trombone, violin, banjo, piano, trumpet, and saxophone. Outside of the pavilion tables are set up.

Address: 2600 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. A girl in a knee-length skirt, top and cap in what looks like jockey silk takes a curtsey next to a convertible car on a stage. Four African American musicians wearing hats reading "Jazz Band" play...